LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- An inmate of Warri Custodial Centre (Okere Prison), Miss Beauty Obi, an 18-year-old mother of two weeks old baby, has been released by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Hon. Justice Tessy Diai, on compassionate grounds.
This is following an appeal to the Chief Judge by the Deputy Controller of the Warri Custodial Centre, Mr Edo Joseph Lucky, after the inmate had reportedly delivered her baby two weeks ago through caesarean section.
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Lucky had passionately narrated the situation of the teenage mother and her boyfriend, who was admitted to the Custodial Centre while she was pregnant.
According to the Deputy Controller of the Custodial Centre, when young Beauty was due for delivery, she was taken to the Warri Central Hospital, where she gave birth through caesarean section, but the little child was placed in an incubator for one week before being reunited with the mother in custody.
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Lucky further disclosed that for the one week the child spent in the incubator, the prison authority spent N1,000 per hour, which, he said, informed his appeal to the Chief Judge to grant her bail to enable her to go to her parents for proper care.
The Chief Judge, who is said to have assisted Beauty with the sum of N20,000, also granted her bail in the sum of N250,000 with one surety in like sum, while the surety, who must be resident within the jurisdiction of the trial court, should depose to an affidavit of means and provide his national identity card NIN number.
